Method of compressing and baling cotton-batting



H. REMBERT.

Patented June 10, 1890.

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(No Model.)

METHOD OT OOMPRESSING AND BALINO OOTTON BAT'TINO. No. 429.640.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

HENRY EEMBEET, or WILLIS, TEXAS.

METHOD OF COMPRESSING AND BALING COTTON-BATTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,640, dated J' une10, 1890.

Application filed November 21, 1889. Serial No. 331,082. (No model.)

T all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY REMBERT, acitizen of the United States,residing at IVillis,

' in the county of Montgomery and State of rolls 3.

Texas, have invented a new and useful Method of Oompressing and BalingCotton-Batting, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to a method of compressing and balingcotton-batting.

The invention consists in certainsteps hereinafter described, andparticularly referred to in the claims.

Certain features of construction herein illustrated and descri bed-forpracticing the method set forth are not herein claimed, as such form thesubject-matter of a patent, No. 417,092, granted to me December 10,1889.

In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated alongitudinal verticalSection of a machine adapted for carrying out my method, and I will nowproceed to describe the same in order that a fair understanding of themethod as practiced may be had.

1 represent-s a bed, from one end of' which rise opposite standards 2,between which there is journaled a pair of transverse rolls 3. At aboutthe center of the bed there rises a second pair of standards 4, betweenwhich is j ournaled a single heavy roll 5, and upon the shaft thatcarries the roll there is mounted a pulleyT 6. Along the bed 1 and inrear of the standards 2 there is mounted a series of pairs of standards7, said standards serving to support between each pair thereof smallrollers u 8. Upon `the rollers S, and adapted for movement over thesame, there is mounted a carriage 9.

In front of the bed 1, upon suitable legs or standards 11, there isInounted a table 10, the rear end of which isslightly below the adjacent portions of the peripheries of the rolls 3, and upon the tablethere are mounted opposite pairs of short Vertical standards 12, andbetween each pair loose rolls 13, the upper portions of' the peripheriesof the rolls being about on a line with the upper portions of theperiphery of the lower one of the pair of 11 represents two pairs ofopposite vertical standards rising from the table 10 at its front end,and between each pair there are loosely-mounted rolls 15.

16 represents a carriage mounted on the loose rolls 13, and connected bya pitman 17 to any suitable operating mechanism adapted to reciprocatethe carriage back and forth over the rolls 13 and under the rolls 15.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The cotton-batting ispassed between the rolls 15 and the leading end held upon the carriage16. The machinery being started and the carriage reciprocated folds thebatting in alternate directions upon the carriage. The rolls l5 serve toprimarily compress the batting upon the carriage, and after a sufficientnumber of layers' have been piled upon the carriage and uniformly foldedsaid carriage is run down to the rear end of the table, the web severed,and the piled batting passed between the rolls 3, where a still furthercomj pression takes place. The carriage 9 being in waiting receives thebatting, and in this `manner is loaded by a sufficlent number of fifth,subjecting the mass thus formed to a final compression, substantially asspecified.

2. The herein-described method of forming bales from cotton-batting, thesame consist-4 ing in, first, folding` the cotton in successive layersand slightly compressing the same at their folds; second, severing theweb at intervals into sections; third, subjecting the sectionssuccessively and independently to compression; fourth, piling thesections fifth,

subjecting the mass thus formed to final com-44 pression, and, sixth,binding or baling the same while under such compression, substantiallyas specified.

In testimony that I claim presence of two witnesses.

` HENRY REMBER'I.

vVitnesSesz M. C. LESLIE, EDWIN HILL.

Ioo lf the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature 1n

